The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25
Notes and Opinions.
THOUGH history occasionally repeats
itself, more often it doesn't.

THOUGH history occasionally repeats
itself, more often it doesn't.
A WRITER says Poverty is rela-
tive" Yes, it is the nearest relative
some of us have.
ONE more whack at railroad legisla-
ton and the conductor will have to pay
his fare like the passengers
Californian.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY says that the
amount of duties collected from Cana
dian roads has increased on account of
the interstate commerce law.
AMONG the recent active movements
in real estate that in Arizona seems to
have been the most spontaneous and
unprecedented. Chicago Tribune.
SENATORS VOORHEES, AND BECK ex-
press the opinion that the President
will call an extra session of congress by
October l to consider revenue taxation.
EDWARD ATKINSON estimates the
net loss in the United States from waste
and bad cookery of food and waste
of fuel at one thousand million dollars
JAY GOULD acquired taste for
snails during his recent stay in New
Mexico and has them cooked for him
nearly every day. But Jay Gould
himself is no snail
TREMENDOUSLY important, if true
The report is telegraphed over this
great country that Burlington is in
danger of having baseball nine like
unto Rutland and st. Adams.
SENATOR MORRILL, says that the re-
publican party is in excellent shape
and can elect either Sherman, Allison
or Blaine in 1888, but it is too early to
say who will get the nomination.
ALL gall is divided into three parts,
of which the mugwumps have one. AS
the mugwumps are a good deal less
than one-third of the population their
proportion of gall is excessive. Lowell
Courier.
Discussed with personal and politi-
cal squabbles, an Ashland CO., brother
suggests this toothsome question for
journalistic discussion: elbow many
apple-dumplings can an editor eat with
safety ?"
THE mugwump disiikes the coat
which Mr.. Roosevelt, with a rare genius
for political tailoring, has made fol
him. 1t is as close fit as the tabled
shirt of Nessus, and as prickly and irri-
tating.-Tribune.
THERE is no reason to doubt the
critical condition of Mr.. Parnell's
health, Notwithstanding the fierce deni.
ais of his partisans. Justice Mccarthy
says Mr.. Parnell is suffering from can.
Ger in the stomach.
THE New York Sun says if Cleve.
land should be renominated he would
lose more of the labor vote in 1888 than
he lost in 1884, and that he would lose
it not only in the city of New York but
throughout the state.
THE new senator from Florida, elected
by compromise of the democratic
factions, is Samuel Pasco, a native OF
Massachusetts and fifty-ive years of
age. He is speaker of the Florida
house and successful lawyer.
THE Boston Globe explains why it is
that American editors are obliged to be
so funny. The sense of the comical
side of things is providential gift d" to
preserve them from insanity while they
bear about with them the woes of the
world"
No fewer than four of the gentlemen
who are mentioned as available as the
successor to Judge Wood of the United
States supreme court are ex-confeder-
ates who made an appeal to arms
against the authority of the tribunal to
which they aspire. Doubtless these